On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:08:29PM +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote:> > That's funny> It does look to disturb some kernel developper that ethernet may be sniffed> to feed a RNG> even that could be very hard to reach any effective result in the case of a> machine splitting> different network segments.> > In the same time, it does not disturb openssl developpers to include non> initialised> memory that may or may not be predictable to feed a RNG.> http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=121095151003011&w=2

Why should it disturb them?

As is explained in the email you quote it cannot make the RNGoutput worse.

> Gilles

cuAdrian

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